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Our Job l'rlnjiii|f Will l?l?-?u<? You, ]The Camden Chronicle .\ <?4mm| r*|H<r In \ tiotMl Town. vommi; xxiii. UU? I N I MIililt H. CAM|?RN, HOITH CJAROMNA, JI NK W, l?tl. "LINOTYPE WAY" FOR CHRONICLE V OI'FIIATIONH OF ONK OF THK MBCHANICA/j MMl\^l-S of THK ACJK ? TYPKHWTTINCi IIY HAND HAH OlVKN WAV TO THK TOUCH OF A KKYBOAItl) ANO TYPKMAKIMJ ? YKAltM HFKNT IN UXFHitlMKNTINU ? ITH CAPACITY AND ITH PRODUCT ? A FULL DRHCRIPTION. With thin issue of" The Chronicle is Inaugurated an improvement in our mechanlcel department which i'lacea us another stride in advance. We huve Just installed^ one of the latent improved pattern* of the two-letter Junior Liu'otype. By Its uko we will he enabled to issue a larger and better paper than we have ever' been in position to pro duce heretofore. Frequently in the pant we have been compelled to omit important items that reached 4jb-too late to he put in typo. Now all such con tingencioH arc absolutely avoided. The machine will do the work of three or four hand compositors, so that we will never be at a loss in the future about printing a detailed story concerning whatever happens. /Vdded to this advantage, we can always present our readers with a frnper printed from brand-new type, or slugs, as the product of the Lin type \s called. After being once Used for an edition of the paper, these slugs are not preserved, but Cast back into the melting-pot or crucible of the machine, there to be roduced^to a molten or semi-fluid state and subsequently recast into new slugs for the next edition... While a great many of our read ers may have seen a Linotype at (tome time or other, possibly very fewof"them have ever seen a Junior Linotype. ^For the benefit of such as have never seen either, a de scription of tliis wonderful machine is given herewith. The Junior Linotype is a modlfl catfon of the original standard Lin otype, and, with the exception that its scop*.* \h somewhat limited, has ail tli."5 strong features which made the parent machine famous. A few words about its evolution and de velopement will be appropriate at this time. About nlnoteen years ago John It. Rogers Invented i composing and casting machlue. In principle It was a good deal like the present Junior Linotype, but It was rather crude in Its operation. It was operated en tirely by hand, atad its extreme capacity would not have equaled the output-of more than, two hand com positors at best. He sold his pat ents to the Mergenthaler Linotype and since that time has been at head of the experimental department of that great company. Although the greater part of his time has been devoted, with Philip T. Dodge, the president of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, to improving the construction and increasing the ver satility of the standard Linotype, yet he has always had a warm spot in his heart for his original idea. He realized, however, that a one letter, hand-operated, semi-automat ic composing machine was but iT make-shift at its best, and so, a bout seven years ago, the first Ju nior Linotype was completed in the factory of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, and was a direct- descen dant of his original machine. It was, to be sure, a one letter ma chine, but was power-driven and au tomatic in Its casting and distribu tion. ' * , Since those early days the Junior Linotype has been steadily improved In construction. Mr. Rogers has Rpent a great many days in offices whero Junior Linotypes were in op eration under various conditions and * from his keen observation has been enabled to develop the machine to me^t those conditions in a way which has proved to be satisfactory; to tfc.e users and to the manufac turer. f ? Mr. Rogers, in his toiir of obser vation of smaller newspaper offices before mentioned, lemked among other things that the majority of publishers wanted a machine which, In casting and distribution,. wbuld bo not only automatic, but which would eet both the small headings in black faar*snri the bbdy matt< In Roman from one set of mat rfcee. Ttoie lr what Is meant by a two-letter machine. Such la the machine which la In our office to Since February, 1, 1908, more t han 4 0'0 Junior Linotypes have been Bold and installed. It is (ho only machine within the means of the country publisher which iu power-1 driven and which carrier four al- I phabetB?upper and lower case: itoi)iau and upper and lowur- ua?e i black letter?on one set of matrices, at the inutant command of the op erator from a keyboard of sevonty eight keys. The one in our dffice in driven by a gasoline engine. The metal Yroni which the slugs are cast and from which thin issue of The Chronicle la printed is houted in the t ruclble of the machine b.. ni.M.itj o! a gaso iine burner. The Junior Linotype produces fin lulled matter of the highest quali ty, and permits the face or style of type to be changed at will. Either of these fonts 1b at the inst'ant command of th6 operator. He can change from one to the other at will. All that is necessary is the shifting of a lever. The operator can read and correct his matter as he proceeds before a line is cast. Any person of Intelligence can, in a reasonable tlmo, become a good op erator, his progress, of course, be ing dependent upo*0, careful and persevering effort. The Junior Linotype is known to day in every state in the union, and in many foreign countries. It is not a type-setting machine j in the ordinary sense of the word? on the contrary. It is a machine | which, being operated by flnger keys like a typewriter, creates or produces type matter made for use on the press. It produces and as sembles side by Bide metal bars or slugs, each slug the measure de sired. and having on the upper edge the type character to print an en tire line. These bars, having the appearance of^ type and answering the same purpose, are called "lino types." When the slugs or linotypes are assembled side by 'side, they con stitute Jointly a "form**, composed of ordinary typo and adapted to bo .used in the samo manner. After be ing used, the linotypes are returned to the melting pot of the machine to be recast into new lines, thus doing away with type distribution. Each matrix hangs on a wire, and AN AGED CAMDEN LADY DIED LAST SATURDAY ... T* ? . ? ? } MHS, NKIiHON A WAV AT IUPH OLD A<?K. WAS AN INVAIJI). Mrs. Rebecca Nelson (lied luilt Saturday morning, June 24, In the K&tli year of her age. While had been an invalid for many long years, tlie end came suddenly and unexpected and wuu a sorrowful surprise to the entire community. Mrs. Nelson was Miss Rebecca Love. She was born in 1827, and spent all of her youth and girl hood on h?r father's plantation 10 miles north of Camden, In 1850 she won married to Mr. Thomas J. Nelson. Of tbtB union six children were born. Mr. Neluon was a KfU. lant Confederate soldier, and died in the service of the South, whllp in prison at Point Lookout. After the war, like many others, she had a hard (struggle, but she met It bravely, and commanded the admir ation and respect of all who knew her. TIiIb, she never lost through all her long years of suffering, hut died as she had lived?honored, beloved, aud respected by all. ? She was a consistent member Nof the Episcopal church, though long since unable to attend. Only one child survives her ?Miss Rebecca Nelson, whose devotion and faith fulness to her mother' never rfaL tered to the last. She also leaves thirteen grand children, and ten great grand children to love and revere her memory. "Servant of God. well done; Rest from thy loved employ; The battle fought, the victory won ^ Enter thy Master's Joy. "The voice at midnight came; She started up to hear; A mortal arrow pierced her frame She fell, but felt no fear. "The pains of death are past; Labor and sorrow cease; And life's long warfare closed at last, ? Her soul is' found in peace. "Soldier of ChrlBt," well done; Praise be thy new employ; And, while eternal ages run, Rest. In thy Savior's Joy." the matrices aro used in rotation (is ihe machine Is' operated. When a key If depressed, a nuitrlx bear ing a character corresponding to that on the keyboard Is released from the storage wires. The mat rices are assembled one by one,-and whenever a space Is desired, the op erator touches the space-bar, which releases a spaceband. These space hands are wedge shaped strips of steel which drop Into their places between the words?the thin end In the line of matrices and the thick end projecting down bolow the line After the lino is assembled, the operator pulls a lever which causes the line of matrices to be released from the assemblage and pass on to a position in front of the mold Here the spaceband or steel wedges are forced upward and into the (Continued on last page.) AGRICULTURAL TRAIN TO s COME TO OUR COUNTY KXI*KliT? in (HAIUJK TO CJIVftS V.lM'AliMC DKMONhIKV. IION8 ON KAI(MIN(i. Tho Clomson College train will ho In Camden, Thursday, July tith, and every farmer who lb IntereHted In improved methods and better live Stock Hhould make an effort to upend the day In the- ?? 11y and at tend the lectures to ho delivered by the meotberH of the Clemson fae \ilty who will have charge of tho train. A few hours spent In this way may bo worth hundreds of dol lars to the farmer who |? seeking for the bettor and more -profitable way of doing lilu work. In speaking of the visit of tho train to Columbia the Ileeord of that city ban tho following to Hay: "The Clemson-Wlnthrop demon stration train in its stop In Colum bia Saturday has shown a great many valuable tlilngH to thoHe that visit the earn, not the least valua ble of which Is the Hplrlt In which tho work Ih crarled on. There 1b no Idea of making tho train an exhibit of which the collegoH % are doing, but to give to the rural dls trlctH some real educational domon strations. Only bucIi apparatus Ih carried as will accrue to this ond. The whole Is pitched on an inteuBe ly practical scale. "The live stock experts, on the CleniHon cars show tho cattle, point ing out In loctures the good and bad points of tho animaln at hand. One of the cars Is given over to the stock; there are three typen of cattle, the dairy, beef and dual pur pOBe Htock. The Jersey and Holfi teln for milk and beef, which Ib the cow for the average small farm er. The specimens on the car are particularly flnej the pair of Poled Angus calves having attracted wide attention. Tho pair of Purcherou mares, weighing 1,650 and 1,710 pounds, are Intended to show the type best for tho rearing of good farm mules. The animals are all a show ?from the artistic stand point, exhibiting what Robu Bon heur sought and admired. "The corn in exhibited by Mr. J. N. Napier. He tells how tho seed should be selected w Ifli reference to Its producing and brooding qual ities, and exhibits classes of the In sects that are tho greatest enemies to the farmer. A farmer's library of some forty practical bookn of reference Is d! feature In ono of the seven cars. "Dr. D. N. Barrow is in charge of the train. This 1b tho first train of Its kind over run in the South, for instead of making 4 or 5' stops a day, it sta^s a whole 12 hours at ono plaeo and really teach es Associated with Dr. Harrow are l)r. E. Harnett, Prof. J. N. Bur geaaf Prof. Archibald Smth, and Mr. Word of the Southern railway who, as the company's live stock agent Is interested In the work of tl>e train. "Miss Hyde, In charge of the Winthrop exhibit, Is trying with her twp assistants, graduates of Winthrop, to do for tho women what Prof. Barrow 1b for tho men. Easier methods of housework, more system as lightening tho dally load, economy In labor and in material things ? the brightening of the home by removing all that is un necessary Is tho purpose of the Winthrop demonstration. Utensil are shown and UBed beforo the eyes of the audience, the most Improved methods of cooking, etc., are dwelt on in talks by Miss Hyde. "Dr. Barrow Is genuine In hl8 Praise of the railroads that have so much aided in tho work. They have afforded cars and crews and ?peclal transportation ? tho South ern crew has been with the train now for two weeks and Dr. Bar row can not say too much to their credit as making the work possi ble." MASS MEETING OF CITIZENS To DiscOsi Municipal Ownership of Water and Light*. A mass meeting of the oltlsens ot Camden will be held at the Court House on Monday night next, June 26th, to dlseuiis municipal own ?*shlp nrf^rater wrdUfBUT" Mr. A. J. Sprolss of Greenwood, S. C-, one of the best authorities on the ?ubjeet In the South, will be present on thl. oooatton.? l#t mrj.b04i WST cut ud kur tkU tmpsrtut "?iPPpaWi REMARKABLE PROGRESS OF SOUTHERN PAPERSj A TIMKIiY A ItTU'l.K AM) A V AI, IAIU,K Sl'(?(JKHTION |H) Al. IM'HINKHH MKN. The Manufacturers' Ueeord, of Baltimore, Muys: There la probably no more strik ing llluat ration of (In; remarkable progress of the South during It? ?u6t few yearn than the groat chang which ban taken place in the news papers of the leading towim and i'IMoh of that section in that period, it wan hut a few yearn ago when there were only 11 few cities in the South in which the dally newspa per allowed through their adver tising columns uh well aa In their news pages any evidence of great business activity. In fact, moat of the newspapers had rather an up hill fight, because of the lack of broad advertising by local peoplo. Today (he situation la entirely dif ferent. in dozens of towns and eitiea throughout the South the newspapers, which have always been leader* in the upbuilding of the South, are in tliemaelvea remarka ble maturations of the vast growth of business of every kind. Papers which a few years ago showed but scanty recognition in their adver tising pages of the appreciation by local people of the value of adver tising, are now crowded with a va riety and an amount of adyertlaing indicative of the life and. activity) of the community. In fact, some of them are evidently at times al-i moat, tempted to follow the exam ple of a commercial paper, once well known with which thy writer was acquainted, whoae advertising grew bo rapidly that one day thoro appeared at the head of the edito rial column thia announcement: "Owing to the great preaa of advertising matter, all editor ial matter is omitted from thia Issue." In that particular caao the bus iness manager, and not the editor was reaponalble for the make-up, and ho bolieved that the advertise ments in the paper wero more in teresting to the public, as well aS to the publishers, than editorial stuff. He believed that a business activity which swamped the columns of his paper with advertising mat ter t,o the exclusion from that Is sue of ull editorials Indicated the prosperity of the community far beH ter than anything tho unfortunate editor might have laboriously writ ten. While Southern papers may not have the opportunity of following this example, they aro at least ev ery day becoming more and more In themselves advertisements of their communities. The outside man not familiar with the South, who picks up a daily or weekly pa per from any one of its leading cit ies, will get an Impression about Southern /business life and activity that will necessarily have a lasting effect. It might, indeed, be a good policy for every business man in the South, after ho hns read his lo cal paper, to mall It to some friend elsewhere. The influence for good could hardly be estimated. It 1b quite certain that evory paper sent from any part of the South to Northern or Western friends would be read, and it could not bo road without creating a now impression about business activity In tho new South. If every banking house, for instance, would make It a rule to have the dally and weekly papers which it receives mulled after they have been read, to its correspond ents in other sections, taking by turns tho names on Its list, it would, find the small postage returned a thousandfold through a closer ac quaintanceship and in enlarged bus iness with its outsido banking friends. The same is true as to every other line of business in the South'. No man is doing business in that seotlon without having ac quaintances or correspondents else where. L*t everyone make it &j rule to MDd to some outside friend every copy of hie daily paper which now goes to the wastebasket after it has been read. In the aggregate millions of copies of Southern pa pers woikld in this way annually reach people, in ether eeetfoae. The iMt Is lull; ifcrwlat to the w? tions of the South would be great. ?r Misses Nannie Oay, of Kertihaw, and RoeabeH Withenpoon, of flum VS2 were Ift- Owadenw#ir?feour% ? ? - NEWSY COMMUNICATION FROM ACROSS THE RIVER <1 I'll) MKTTINti llt'HV IIKPOItK 11.\ W <JOKH INTO ICWKCT, OTHKH MOWS NOTKH Blanoy, K. C., J nil** 21.' ?- Well, Mr. Kdlior, wo were Uot dead but sleeping. Now, since a serious drought luts been broken up l>y re freshing showers, wo Ihivo awaken ed, and will lot you hour from our low II. We think wo hnve u pleasant and prosperous little town here. Wo noto thut there are moiiio good peo ple casting their lot with ug here. Several now residences have been hullt recently which are now all oc cupied. Homo, of our merchants say they ure doing moro business than they have ever done ut thin houhoii of the year. We have 25 square miles hore to hulld alown upon nad all the neceutmry facilities to make our town uh pleasant and desirable as any town, und wo want more good uuopio u> come in and join uh. Wo have a fine church and school facilities. Hev. A. 10. C. IMttnian, one of our Baptist intnlHlorH, hold the attention of a lurgo congrega tlon hero last Sunday while hu preachod from <ho text I Cor. 1:18.' The iiiuhIc was also excellent. Rev. T. J. Cupstid, another ono of our Baptist ministers, has gone to Lexington to hold a meeting there. May his efforts ho crow nod with SUCCOSH. Our farmers have their erops in the very hont condition to\ receive the refreshing showers. The crops both cotton and corn that came up when first planted are looking well, and are unusually large consider ing the drought and the season of the year. F. W. Watson reported a cotton bloom on his-farm on the 19th. ? Mr. N. C. Nelson aays ho wants to take tho cake on cotton around Bluney this year, but ho had bet ter keep his eyes on Mr. Howell. Wo had a pleasant drive last Sunday with Bonnie Cooper. Ilo has a turnout second to none in Blaney. Mrs. Hilton is visiting relativos In tho eastern portion of tke coun ty. Mrs. Fannie Moore is visiting re latives in Fairfield. Mrs. Eliza Branham, of Camden, after a long and serious illness, died on tho 12th inst. The funeral services wore conducted by the Bap tist minister in Camden and her body Intorrod in tho Ebenozer cem etery in Wost Wateree. "When wo asunder part, It gives us inward pain, But wo shall still be joined in hoart, And hope to meet again." I guess some of the young peo ple are somewhat Impressed with some of the now actay passed by our last legislature, 'For instance the marrlago liconso law. On the 4th inst at the Notary's offifio in Blaney, was married Wll llo White, of Blaney to Maggie Kel ley, of Camden. On the 18th inst., the, rumbling noiso of wheels in the distance broko tho silence at the Notary's offico, bringing tho bride and groom and a host of friends to witness the marriage of MIbb Cynthia Watts, one of Blaney 'a brightest and pret tiest young ladies, to M?lvln Bran ham, one of our brightest young men. ? On tho 20th inst, Addie Jacobs, of Columbia, was happily married to J. W. Qrlffin, of Jacops. Our best wishes go out with the newly marriod couples. May their livoH bo long upon this oarth, and may tholr pathway through life bo strewn with many of the brightest flowers. "I^ove in so sweet, When Uko a fetter, To love a Bweet maid, And then to wed her." _ Schedule of Appointments, We have received tho following schedule of appolntmonts and tho names of committeemen to Ar range for meeting of the leading organizer of the State Farmers' Union, J. B. O. Holloway ,at the pmcog named in Kershaw county. It is desired that as many farm- - erg as possibly can attend these meetings. AH meetings at 4 p. m., ynless otherwise Indicated: Friday, June 23, Cleveland 8. H. ?E. A. Brown, Camden, No. 1. Saturday, "June "24, Mt. Zion church Jno. S. Brown, Camden, No. 2. Monday, June 26, Bethune? J. W. Hebron, Bethune. Tuesday, June 27, Abnejr?TF. M. Klrkley, Kershaw, No. 4. Wednesday, June 28, Kersteaw? T. 8. Bell, Kershaw. ThWfday, June 29, C. C. <???J 8. Barfleld, Kershaw,No. 1. Friday, June 30, Shaylor HlU-rr? Saturday, July, 1 .Cemden?Re organisation of County Union, 11 a. m. 5Tt man nfci. Ill? fit' ****** y" ~ KS!?#ar 4b Him i?t bp* ?